Speaker 2: What do you think, Graham?
Speaker 2: It's the love story, the rescue story of the.
Speaker 2: Bible.
Speaker 2: That's what it's about.
Speaker 2: It's God knowing that we're going to sin, but from the very beginning, knowing that he's going to send his son to save us.
Speaker 2: So the key why Because he loves us so much, he wants to be in a relationship with us.
Speaker 3: That's how crazy it is.
Speaker 2: I'm doing the Bible recap with my husband this year and we are in Leviticus and it's a little bit of a painful book of the Bible to get through, because it's a lot about cleansing and cleaning, and we're on bodily fluids this morning, so like what do you got?
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 1: And, but the reality is there are still, if I quit going about reading some of the stuff repetitiously that seems to not make sense to me.
Speaker 3: The reality is, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: It talks about how there has to be a cleansing for the sin.
Speaker 3: Like there has to be a, there has to be a sacrifice for the sin, and it's pointing to.
Speaker 2: Jesus all the way in the book of Leviticus before he's even born.
Speaker 1: So anyway, sorry, we're super geeky about the.
Speaker 1: Bible and the other thing I think in kids' ministry we teach kids Bible stories.
Speaker 2: That's wonderful.
Speaker 3: Like a two-year-old really isn't needing to understand all the suffering right here.
Speaker 3: Right, they need to know that God is big, that God made them and he loves them and he wants to be with them forever that's what they need to know, but as they get older, we need to tell them more, because there's more to the story
Speaker 2: than that, and the Bible's full of God's character, of who he is and how much he loves you, and that you know he will never change and what he says he will do, he will always do.
Speaker 2: I don't know anybody else on this earth who does that, and I have a wonderful husband, but he doesn't always do what he says he's going to do.
Speaker 2: I'm a mom.
Speaker 2: I don't always do what I say I'm going to do.
Speaker 2: He always will, and you'll see that story after story.
Speaker 1: The other big thing is the upper story versus the lower story.
Speaker 2: I talk about that a lot for our kids, because in the midst of a trial or tribulation, if you don't understand, there's something going on that's not good, you don't get that.
Speaker 2: God is saving you from something that's way worse.
Speaker 2: Right Anyway, all right.
Speaker 4: So, as we dive in and we break down the Gospel of John.
Speaker 4: I want you all to keep three things in mind.
Speaker 4: All right, what?
Speaker 3: does this passage teach me about God?
Speaker 1: Because we already know it's not going to teach us Well.
Speaker 1: It will teach us about some things of mind.
Speaker 1: Alright, what does this passage teach me about God?
Speaker 1: Because we already know it's not going to teach us well.
Speaker 1: It will teach us about some things of ourselves, Right, but we're looking for what it teaches us about God, because that helps us rely on Him.
Speaker 4: What does it teach us about ourselves, human beings, and what does it teach me about meeting a Savior, Alright.
Speaker 4: So we have lots of tools and helps that we're going to show y'all that have helped us through the years.
Speaker 4: There is no wrong way to study the Bible, but I have found these Bible study methods help me the most.
Speaker 4: The one I use is the five.
Speaker 3: W's.
Speaker 3: I'm a history geek, so I want to know who, what, when, where, why and how the five W's.
Speaker 4: I'm a history geek so I want to know who, what, when, where, why and how.
Speaker 4: But I also am now using the REAP method to help me study and go.
Speaker 4: You have a brown book that is now yours.
Speaker 4: I'm going to encourage even you guys to start journaling.
Speaker 4: I can tell you, daniel, and.
Speaker 4: Jason, do it, garrett does it Write down questions you have.
Speaker 3: Write down things you don't understand and I like to go back through mine and then, in a year from now, I go back and go.
Speaker 4: I don't understand this now.
Speaker 4: I was reading this morning and I was like I don't know what a default.
Speaker 1: I don't know what a measurement is.
Speaker 3: They were talking about, you had to have a defaultphod of great.
Speaker 2: And what do you say?
Speaker 2: Is that like a and it's equivalent to a bushel.
Speaker 2: I saw you wrote it down while I was reading and it looks like it's equivalent to a bushel.
Speaker 2: So this story says 16th of a bushel, so that, well, I never knew, but I don't know the size.
Speaker 2: There was another thing that talked about size equivalent to a dime.
Speaker 3: I'm like okay, because again in.
Speaker 2: Leviticus, you find that God created a way for people that didn't have a lot of money to be able to still make atonement for their sin.
Speaker 2: Right, he offered you could do a bird instead of a mammal, a calf or a sheep.
Speaker 2: You know what that's from?
Speaker 2: That's for telling Jesus parents are not going to have enough money to make a sacrifice offering.
Speaker 2: Parents are not going to have enough money to make a sacrifice offering.
Speaker 2: They're going to have to use a burden.
Speaker 2: So it's already known.
Speaker 2: God already knows it all the way back in the Old Testament and as he's writing all these crazy laws, and he's already planned for his own son's parents to be able to make atonement for sin.
Speaker 1: Alright, so the number one step is start in prayer.
Speaker 4: The Holy Spirit will guide you in learning what you need to learn.
Speaker 4: I'm a firm believer in that, because sometimes I go.
Speaker 4: I've done the Bible recap.
Speaker 4: I am right now going to.
Speaker 3: Old.
Speaker 4: Testament.
Speaker 4: I'm in school going through.
Speaker 1: Old Testament and sometimes I have no idea why I'm learning what.
Speaker 1: I'm learning and then the Holy Spirit shows it to me a little bit later as to this was what this meant or this was what this meant.
Speaker 4: So always start with prayer and then go to your questions.
Speaker 4: Ask your who, what, when, where why?
Speaker 4: But what we're going to focus on today is learning all about your Knowing the time that the book was written, knowing who wrote it, why they wrote it and when it was written.
Speaker 4: Who thinks the Bible was written chronologically that?
Speaker 2: when you open it up, it's in the order as things happen.
Speaker 2: Yes, no, it's not.
Speaker 2: That's one of the reasons why.
Speaker 2: Just so you know, if you think that it's overwhelming and intimidating to you, there are like brilliant geniuses of the world who don't even have faith or believe in God.
Speaker 2: But it's on everybody, it's the most spied-after book to read from the beginning to the end, is the Bible.
Speaker 2: It's a fact.
Speaker 3: They all want to read it and have off their bucket list that they've read the Bible, but it's really confusing, because it doesn't happen in the order of which things happen.
Speaker 2: That's not how it's written, because the reality was there wasn't paper right, and so they wrote books based on they didn't write it at the moment that it happened either.
Speaker 3: So that we hear about Moses.
Speaker 1: They talked about things, sitting around the fire and telling your family as they go.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing.
Speaker 1: How would I go back then?
Speaker 1: So as the stories were written, so it's not in any order.
Speaker 1: So don't be intimidated.
Speaker 1: And the other thing I'll tell you is you might read something now and you read it later and you're like, oh, you never saw that.
Speaker 2: I have read this story of Joseph to the kids for 10 years.
Speaker 2: How?
Speaker 2: Did I not see that Because the Holy Spirit will reveal something to you when you need to see it Crazy as that sounds.
Speaker 2: So in your folders you'll find timelines that are helpful.
Speaker 2: You'll find.
Speaker 2: We put the books of the Bible so'll timeline from Old Testament to New Testament.
Speaker 2: We started to do a book called the Story, which is kind of a novel form of the Bible from beginning to end.
Speaker 2: And I had a guy who grew up in church his whole life and I told Stacey this story a hundred times and he said to me I had no idea that Jesus wasn't born during Moses' time.
Speaker 2: I just knew stories of Moses.
Speaker 2: I knew stories of Jesus.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: So again until you understand how it all is put together it doesn't really make as much sense, and it's still a little bit overwhelming.
Speaker 4: I'm also going to encourage you to study the Bible the way you learn best.
Speaker 4: If you're an audio learner, do it by listening.
Speaker 4: I do both.
Speaker 4: I have to listen and read at the same time and work for something to stick in my brain, and then you only have to write it.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm going to tell you, if you're not a writer's cookie.
Speaker 3: I have to do all those steps, but that's what happens, so know how you learn, all right.
Speaker 4: But I also use things like the Bible Project before I start reading the book.
Speaker 4: Has anybody used the Bible Project before here?
Speaker 1: we've read it a lot.
Speaker 4: It breaks down.
Speaker 1: The author tells you all of the things that might be helpful to understanding the book of the.
Speaker 4: Bible.
Speaker 4: So we're going to go ahead and we're going to show y'all the John version of it, because that's where we're going to go is John 1.
Speaker 3: The Gospel according to John.
Speaker 3: It's one of the earliest accounts of Jesus' life and we learn at the end of the book that it comes from one of Jesus' closest followers, called the disciple whom Jesus loved, and he appears many times in the story itself, and there's some debate about whether it's John the son of Zebedee, or John the.
Speaker 4: Twelve or a different John who lived in.
Speaker 3: Jerusalem and was known in the later church as John the Elder, whichever.
Speaker 4: John, it was.
Speaker 3: The book embodies his eyewitness testimony, and it's been brilliantly designed with the clear purpose that he made it.
Speaker 3: John says the story is written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Speaker 3: John believes that the Jesus you read about in this book is alive and real and that he can change your life forever.
Speaker 3: The book's design is really cool.
Speaker 3: Its first half opens with an introductory poem and a short story that's followed by then a big block of stories about Jesus performing miraculous signs that generate increasing controversy, and it all culminates in his greatest sign, the raising of Lazarus, which creates the greatest controversy as Israel's leaders decide to kill Jesus and that launches into the book's second half.
Speaker 3: These chapters focus on Jesus' final night and last words to his disciples, which are followed by his arrest, trial, death and resurrection.
Speaker 3: The book concludes with an epilogue.
Speaker 3: In this video we're just going to focus on the first half.
Speaker 3: So the book opens with a two-part introduction.
Speaker 3: First, a poem that begins in the beginning was the Word an obvious allusion to Genesis 1, when God created everything with His Word.
Speaker 3: Now a person's words, they're distinct from that person, but also the embodiment of that person's mind and will.
Speaker 4: And so John says that.
Speaker 3: God's Word was with God.
Speaker 3: That is distinct.
Speaker 3: And yet the Word was God.
Speaker 3: That is divine, and as we part of this claim, we hear later in the poem that this divine word became human in Jesus.
Speaker 3: Then John goes on to draw from the stories of Exodus, saying that Jesus was God's tabernacle in our midst.
Speaker 3: The glorious divine presence that hovered over the Ark of the Covenant became a human in Jesus, which leads to his last claim that the one true God of Israel consists of God, the Father, and the Son, who has become human to reveal the Father to us.
Speaker 3: Now, as we consider these mind-bending claims, we then start to hear a story about how John the Baptist first met Jesus and then led other people to meet him and become his disciples, and one by one, as people encounter Jesus, they say out loud who they think he is.
Speaker 3: And in this one chapter, jesus is given seven titles.
Speaker 3: Now these titles prepare us for John's love of sevens and designing the book, but altogether they also make a claim that this fully human Jesus from Nazareth is the Messianic King, he's the teacher of Israel and he's the Son of God who will die for the sins of the world.
Speaker 3: Now, that's a big claim to make about someone, and John will now go on to support it through the stories in chapters 2-12.
Speaker 3: They all have the same basic pattern Jesus will perform a sign or make a claim about himself, and that will result in misunderstanding or controversy, and so in the end of each story, people are forced to make a choice about who they think Jesus is.
Speaker 3: The first section shows Jesus encountering four classic Jewish institutions, and in each case, jesus shows that he is the reality to which that institution pointed.
Speaker 3: So Jesus is at a wedding party.
Speaker 3: The wine runs out and Jesus then turns these huge jugs of water 120 gallons total into the best wine ever, and the head waiter says to the groom you've saved the best wine for last, which is, of course, true.
Speaker 3: But John also calls this miracle Jesus' first sign.
Speaker 3: In other words it's a symbol that reveals something about Jesus.
Speaker 3: So, just as Isaiah said that, the Messianic kingdom would be like this huge party of lots of good wine.
Speaker 3: So this first miraculous sign reveals the generosity of Jesus' kingdom.
Speaker 3: Next, jesus goes to the Jerusalem temple, the place where heaven and earth were supposed to come together and God would meet with his people, and Jesus asserts his authority over it, running out all the money exchangers stopping the sacrificial offerings.
Speaker 4: And when the temple leaders threaten him.
Speaker 3: He says destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days.
Speaker 3: Jesus is claiming that his coming sacrificial death is where heaven and earth will truly meet together.
Speaker 3: His body, that will be killed is the reality to which the temple building points.
Speaker 3: Then Jesus has this all-night conversation with a rabbi named Nicodemus, who thinks that Jesus is just like him, another rabbi and teacher for Israel.
Speaker 3: But Jesus says that Israel needs much more than just another teacher with new information.
Speaker 3: Israel needs a new heart and a new life.
Speaker 3: Or, in his words, no one can experience God's kingdom without being born again.
Speaker 3: Jesus believes that humans are caught in a web of selfishness and sin that leads to death, but he also knows that God loves this world.
Speaker 3: And so he's here to offer people a new birth, a new chance at life.
Speaker 3: From here, jesus travels north and he ends up at a sacred well in a conversation with a Samaritan that is a non-Jewish woman.
Speaker 3: And they.
Speaker 3: Jesus travels north and he ends up at a sacred well in a conversation with a Samaritan that is a non-Jewish woman, and they start talking about water, which Jesus turns into a metaphor for himself.
Speaker 3: He says that he's here to bring living water that can become a source of eternal life.
Speaker 3: Now, in John, this term refers to a new quality of life, one that's infused with God's eternal love, and it's a life that can begin now and last on into the future.
Speaker 3: After this, john has designed another collection of stories that took place during four Jewish sacred days or feasts.
Speaker 3: And again Jesus uses the images related to the feasts to explain about himself.
Speaker 3: So Jesus first heals a paralyzed man on the Sabbath which starts a controversy with the Jewish leaders about working on the day of rest.
Speaker 3: And Jesus says it's his father who's working on the Sabbath, and so is he.
Speaker 3: And they catch his meaning that he was calling God his father, making himself equal with God, and so they want to kill him.
Speaker 3: The next story takes place during Passover, the feast that we told the Exodus story, the symbolic meal of the lamb and bread and wine.
Speaker 3: And Jesus miraculously provides food for a crowd of thousands, which results in people asking him for more.
Speaker 3: And then Jesus goes on to claim that he is the true bread and if they eat him they will discover eternal life, and this offends many people who stop following him After.
Speaker 3: This is a block of stories set in Jerusalem during the Feast of the Tabernacles, which retold the story of Israel's wilderness wanderings as God guided them through the pillar of cloud and fire and provided them water in the desert.
Speaker 3: And Jesus gets up in the temple courts and shouts If anyone is thirsty, let them come to me and drink.
Speaker 3: And then later he says I am the light of the world.
Speaker 3: He's claiming to be the illuminating presence of God and the life-saving gift of God to his people, and some people believe and follow him.
Speaker 3: But others are offended and still others try to kill him for these exalted claims.
Speaker 3: The final feast story is during Hanukkah, which means rededication.
Speaker 3: It's about how Judah Maccabee cleared the temple of idols and set it apart as holy once more, and Jesus goes into the temple area and says that he is the one who God has set apart as a holy one and that he is the true temple where God's presence prevails.
Speaker 4: And he also says I am the father of one.
Speaker 3: This makes the Jerusalem leader so angry.
Speaker 3: They set a motion plan to kill Jesus, and so he retreats from the city.
Speaker 3: Now all these conflicts culminate in one last miraculous sign.
Speaker 3: Jesus hears that his dear friend Lazarus is sick, but his family lives near Jerusalem, which is now a death trap for Jesus.
Speaker 3: Now Jesus could stay away and he would save his own life, but he loves Lazarus.
Speaker 3: So once he hears that Lazarus has died, he goes to raise him from the dead and he calls him to life out of this tomb, knowing that it will cost him his own life.
Speaker 3: And the news of this amazing sign.
Speaker 3: It spreads quickly, of course, and just as Jesus knew it would happen, the Jerusalem leaders hear about it and begin to conspire to murder him.
Speaker 3: And so he rides into Jerusalem as Israel's king who's rejected by its leaders.
Speaker 3: So the first half of John draws to a close with this story about Jesus laying down his life as an act of love for his friend, and this, of course, is also a sign pointing forward to the cross, which we'll explore more in the next video, but for now, that's the first half of the Gospel of John.
Speaker 4: Alright, so as we.
Speaker 3: The Gospel according to John.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry.
Speaker 3: In the first video we saw that John wrote this book to make the Alright, so as we jump in I want you to remember that Now.
Speaker 2: Who knew all the information about John Wow?
Speaker 2: A lot of people get John the.
Speaker 2: Baptist.
Speaker 4: And John mixed up.
Speaker 1: Yes, so when learning to study the Bible.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you all some steps to go through.
Speaker 4: And we're going to start those steps right now.
Speaker 4: Gather your supplies, do you?
Speaker 1: have your supplies.
Speaker 4: Some of you don't have your Bible.
Speaker 4: That's okay.
Speaker 4: You're going to need it when you're doing your studies on your own.
Speaker 4: All right, so we're going to pick a time that is consistent, all right, how many of you get?
Speaker 3: up at the same time every day For school.
Speaker 4: We'll even throw it for school Around the same time.
Speaker 4: All right, how many of you like to eat breakfast, lunch, dinner?
Speaker 4: That's something you do consistently right, well?
Speaker 1: in order to understand the Bible.
Speaker 1: This is something you have to do consistently.
Speaker 4: All right, now, we picked a book for you, but when you start studying the Bible on your own, pick a book and start at the beginning, if you haven't studied before start in the Gospels you can start at Genesis.
Speaker 4: It's fabulous, but then your next book's going to be a little bit harder.
Speaker 4: So, I always tell, I always suggest you start in the.
Speaker 4: Gospels Matthew, mark, luke and John.
Speaker 4: They help you understand the overarching story of the Bible.
Speaker 2: And I really tell a lot of the same stories because they're different authors, from different perspectives and different details and they all.
Speaker 4: Who thinks all of those people, all four of those guys, were with Jesus?
Speaker 4: Only two of them weren't Okay.
Speaker 4: So two of them, one of them, got the eyewitness account from his mother, jesus' mother, and you will see that his book, is written more about it has a lot of details about women of the Bible.
Speaker 4: The other one got it from Paul and you will see details about that.
Speaker 1: So they're each written different.
Speaker 4: Now the next step is do your detective work.
Speaker 1: All right, break it down.
Speaker 1: Pull up the Bible project.
Speaker 1: Look on your timeline.
Speaker 1: Pull up something about the author.
Speaker 4: Learn about what the person wrote and then, you have a study Bible.
Speaker 1: Some of you guys get a bunch of.
Speaker 1: Some of you have tabs, Like I have my study Bible.
Speaker 2: I have two of them.
Speaker 2: It has actually right before I start the work of John.
Speaker 2: It has this whole big section here.
Speaker 2: It tells by the way, it gives me a little cheater timeline, so I'm wearing a hat it tells me a little bit about who, what, where I'm at.
Speaker 2: I just read it, so yeah.
Speaker 4: Don't get get overwhelmed.
Speaker 4: Start with 10 to 15 minutes.
Speaker 1: That may be all your brain can process.
Speaker 1: That's all my brain can process on Sundays, especially after I've watched or done my information on the author.
Speaker 4: I can't do more than that.
Speaker 4: I'm tapped out.
Speaker 4: It's not going to do any good for you to read 30 minutes and not remember what you read.
Speaker 4: So start with 10 to 15 minutes, don't get overwhelmed with it, but you have to start with 10 to 15 minutes.
Speaker 4: Don't get overwhelmed with it.
Speaker 4: But you have to start.
Speaker 4: You have to start reading, you have to start learning if you want to grow.
Speaker 2: Are any of you trying to read through the Bible?
Speaker 2: Do you do regular Bible plans or Bible readings?
Speaker 2: That's why you're here.
Speaker 2: I also do use the Bible app, which is another thing you can do, and I do the Bible app store at a ton of kids in my old church.
Speaker 2: Every day they send me a different one and we do it and you can read it.
Speaker 3: You can read the Bible.
Speaker 3: That way, you have all different options.
Speaker 1: So again, it's nice because guess what Most of you don't have to have your phones a lot.
Speaker 1: So if you have your phone, it sends me on my phone don't read your Bible today, so another option for you.
Speaker 3: Again, I'm not an audible learner.
Speaker 2: I have to see, I'm a visual learner.
Speaker 4: So I have to read it with my eyes.
Speaker 4: I can't listen to it.
Speaker 2: I would fall asleep, or I'll be right back in my grocery and say, no, oh wait.
Speaker 1: We were talking.
Speaker 1: I wonder what they said.
Speaker 1: So if you're still reading the lessons dream.
Speaker 4: I know today, yeah, this will be the lesson's dream in the world today, yeah, so, and then like I said before you open it and start pray, so before we jump into John we're going to go ahead and open in prayer and I will tell you my simple prayer.
Speaker 4: I do before I start, because if I jump into all of the things that I need from God, I forget to ask what I really need from God.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to go ahead and pray my simple prayer and hopefully you guys can take it with you and pray the simple prayer.
Speaker 1: Alright, and I pray it every Sunday for our kids at church.
Speaker 4: So alright, Heavenly Father, thank you for this day, Lord.
Speaker 4: I pray that you would open my heart and my ears to learn what I need to learn and to grow me closer to you.
Speaker 4: In your name, I pray Amen.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 1: Two seconds, all right, so we're going to jump into John.
Speaker 4: If you have a Bible, go ahead and open it to John.
Speaker 4: If you don't, we do have a few extras that you guys can share.
Speaker 4: Or if somebody by you has one you can share, then go ahead.
Speaker 4: Don't use that one.
Speaker 4: You all can go up here by the way if you don't have a Bible please get with us.
Speaker 4: We have tons and we will get you a good one All right on your desk.
Speaker 4: Most of you, I got them around the room.
Speaker 4: Some of them we ran out.
Speaker 4: You have what we call the ultimate Bible dictionary.
Speaker 4: There are going to be words in the Bible?
Speaker 4: You don't know or phrases you don't know Like what does it mean?
Speaker 4: At the beginning it says he um yes incarnate.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's in there a lot.
Speaker 4: So, or in the beginning was the word.
Speaker 4: What does that mean?
Speaker 4: If you look in your Bible dictionaries, it's in there.
Speaker 4: By the way, if you want one, please take them.
Speaker 4: We bought them for this class.
Speaker 4: And if you didn't get one, let me know and we will get you one.
Speaker 4: Write your name down.
Speaker 4: So we're going to go, we're going to do a verse by verse breakdown and kind of tell you what we see, because we studied this before, so that we can tell you what we learned before.
Speaker 1: Alright, and so every person in this room is in a different season of their life, right?
Speaker 4: I don't think any of you have two foster kids at home and dealing with all of that, or three adopted kids, no, no, okay.
Speaker 4: So we're all in different seasons.
Speaker 4: So in different seasons God teaches us different things or he brings out different things.
Speaker 4: So anybody want to read verse one for me?
Speaker 4: Don't be scared, don't be scared.
Speaker 1: Don't be scared If we give up the world.
Speaker 1: The world already existed.
Speaker 1: The world is with God.
Speaker 1: The world was God.
Speaker 4: Okay, anybody want to guess what that?
Speaker 2: means it did talk about him a bit, though how?
Speaker 1: does the?
Speaker 2: Bible start out.
Speaker 2: What are the first three words in Genesis?
Speaker 1: The beginning.
Speaker 4: So the word?
Speaker 4: Do we know what the word is going to?
Speaker 2: Jesus yes.
Speaker 4: The whole thing is about him.
Speaker 4: The whole thing is about him, so we all think about God being in the beginning, but what we?
Speaker 4: Forget is that Jesus is always there with God and God is always there with Jesus, as well as the Holy.
Speaker 2: Spirit, as well as the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: So, he says let us be man in our image.
Speaker 2: That's what God says in.
Speaker 4: Genesis, so he's already there For the breakdown of the first verse.
Speaker 4: It's just telling you that what all the Old Testament said was true, that in the beginning God was there, jesus was with him and the word was God.
Speaker 3: They're all together.
Speaker 1: So, that's basically.
Speaker 1: It's pointing you to the truth that the Old Testament is the truth.
Speaker 3: That you can trust the Bible.
Speaker 4: Alright, let's go on to verse 2.
Speaker 4: Anybody want to read that one?
Speaker 4: For me it's a short one.
Speaker 4: It goes along with verse one.
Speaker 4: It is hot in here.
Speaker 4: I need a fan.
Speaker 4: So what did we just talk about?
Speaker 4: He existed, he was there.
Speaker 4: He's always been there.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 4: Verse three there.
Speaker 4: He's always been there, alright verse 3.
Speaker 2: So if I were to talk about character of God right there, I see that he always has been, always was and always will be.
Speaker 2: What's that word?
Speaker 2: Alright, verse 3.
Speaker 2: There's a big word.
Speaker 2: I know Anybody's a big word.
Speaker 4: Anybody?
Speaker 4: Oh Ian.
Speaker 4: Okay, alright, I'll read verse 3.
Speaker 4: Through him, all things were made.
Speaker 4: Without him, nothing was made.
Speaker 4: That has been made Just showing Jesus' power in the beginning, through God, the whole time.
Speaker 4: All right, he's powerful, he's powerful.
Speaker 2: He's powerful.
Speaker 4: All right, anybody want to go on to four?
Speaker 4: For me, I can call people I know.
Speaker 4: Oh, I like that.
Speaker 4: Thank you part of it, and the life was alive in them All right.
Speaker 2: so are we seeing a pattern that John's pointing us to?
Speaker 2: The man was life?
Speaker 2: Who are they?
Speaker 4: talking about Jesus.
Speaker 4: Yes, the man was life, and this is probably my favorite that I read in this.
Speaker 4: It's verse 5.
Speaker 1: Anybody want to do verse 5?
Speaker 2: The light shines through darkness and the darkness has not overcome it, which, by the way, is almost a quote from Narnia.
Speaker 2: It's also in the New Testament, because Aslan says something about you cannot get rid of the darkness outside to get rid of the darkness inside.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you'll find that the Bible is actually quoted in a lot of movies and authors use it a lot.
Speaker 4: It's in one of the Ingrid Dickens ones, I don't remember which one.
Speaker 4: How many people and this is a it can be.
Speaker 4: What character of God do you think this shows?
Speaker 4: Strength?
Speaker 4: That's a good one.
Speaker 4: Power, all right.
Speaker 4: So how many of us need light in the darkness?
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of that song.
Speaker 2: Just a little light of mine.
Speaker 2: I'm going to let it shine there you go.
Speaker 2: It's the light of Jesus not my light.
Speaker 4: So we all need light in the darkness.
Speaker 4: So, and he is the only person that can overcome the darkness.
Speaker 4: So, and he is the only person that can overcome the darkness, doesn't matter what you do.
Speaker 4: It actually doesn't matter what Satan does.
Speaker 1: That's showing you right there that Jesus overcomes any darkness If you believe it's all powerful.
Speaker 4: All powerful, alright.
Speaker 4: Now we're going on to verses 6 through 8.
Speaker 4: All powerful, all right.
Speaker 4: Now we're going on to verses 6 through 8.
Speaker 4: Does anybody know?
Speaker 3: who John the Baptist is.
Speaker 4: Or do you want to look?
Speaker 4: It up in your little books that we have in front of you.
Speaker 4: That's a good thing.
Speaker 4: Well, let me look it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a picture of him on the screen over at the top.
Speaker 2: He was actually here two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: I'm going to look at the title.
Speaker 2: Yes, definitely, I'm sorry, he's a sister.
Speaker 4: There we go.
Speaker 1: You got it All right tell me who's the Apostle Baptist prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, prophet, amen.
Speaker 3: So he's the cousin of Jesus, he's the man who baptized Jesus.
Speaker 2: He was the one who called that was in a video where they talked about people giving different names.
Speaker 2: And John the Baptist called Jesus the son of God, jesus the son of God.
Speaker 2: But he was known for being kind of like each razzle with A camel and a hoe.
Speaker 2: He never did middle needs.
Speaker 2: He was a pastor, let's just say, none of you girls would have been lining up to date him.
Speaker 2: Will they focus on how to do that?
Speaker 2: Will they talk about the line that they made?
Speaker 2: But I can question his cousin.
Speaker 2: He got the pure master baptized in Jesus.
Speaker 2: It's like when he came to me, he said you should be baptized in me, I should be baptized in you.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: He's the Messiah.
Speaker 2: So his job is to tell the world that Jesus is God.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to say that for repentance.
Speaker 1: Alright, so can anybody kind of overview what we?
Speaker 4: learned in just those few verses.
Speaker 2: We're just going to write one word down Jesus is my son.
Speaker 4: Yeah, awesome, that's good.
Speaker 2: Anything else.
Speaker 2: Does it surprise any of you that he was in the beginning?
Speaker 2: Did you all know that already?
Speaker 4: Yeah, all of you knew that.
Speaker 4: When you read Genesis, do you read it that way or you just read it as oh, I've created everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get.
Speaker 1: I say that about myself because, as I'm studying the Old Testament now, I have to remember
Speaker 4: that he was there and he's not just a New Testament character.
Speaker 4: He didn't just show up out of nowhere All right, anything else that?
Speaker 4: Y'all learned out of those few verses?
Speaker 4: Besides, jesus is the light.
Speaker 4: He was there in the beginning.
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: can you tell about God from those verses of?
Speaker 4: Jesus.
Speaker 4: What characters of God could you?
Speaker 1: tell us.
Speaker 2: What did you learn about God's character?
Speaker 2: Powerful, almighty, almighty.
Speaker 4: All right, so Do we have to do a verse with the partner?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to jump in.
Speaker 4: I want you all to do the next three verses with the person sitting next to you, all right, and I want you, as a team, to come up with one thing you learned and one characteristic of that it can be a question too.
Speaker 1: It can be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or a question, it can be what you learned about humankind what?
Speaker 4: you learned about one of the characters right.
Speaker 4: You learned to apply in your life anything like that so?
Speaker 3: you all have about five minutes.
Speaker 4: We're going to let y'all do that.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
Speaker 4: So y'all are going to do nine.
Speaker 1: Y'all are going to do 9 through 13.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: I am now a John Wood, john Cusky, the world's most accomplished artist, the world's number one singer champion and most talented artist.
Speaker 1: And I am a Jack LaFontaine, the world's most talented artist and the world's number one singer champion and most talented artist.
Speaker 1: I am now a John Wood, john Cusky.
Speaker 1: Ma'am, we're talking about three things.
Speaker 1: Are you going to step down one more time?
Speaker 4: No, Just tell me what characters you've got in these and, if you have any questions about it, what you learned about one person at this work, I'll choose, and then All right, when somebody's ready to go, let me know, and remember, you're not all going to learn the same things.
Speaker 1: Oh, ok, yeah, why don't you go ahead with your mess?
Speaker 1: All right, everybody ready, y'all ready, all right.
Speaker 4: Who wants to be first?
Speaker 1: Y'all want to be first.
Speaker 1: All right, so y'all are a group.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, you started like 9 and 10.
Speaker 1: It says the only one who's got the true life, life's at every level and he's coming back to the world.
Speaker 1: And then he's coming to the world that he created.
Speaker 1: So he's talking about Jesus, that's right.
Speaker 1: He's coming back.
Speaker 1: And then when he does come back, it talks about he came to his own people but he got rejected by them.
Speaker 1: But then if you have people who get bigger and better and you make them like your children, god will be back there.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 1: Good job.
Speaker 1: Alright, you want to go?
Speaker 1: We're all born in this world, but if we receive God, we're not born yet, not in this world, but of God.
Speaker 1: Very good, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: That's a huge one for them.
Speaker 1: Alright, anybody else?
Speaker 4: john was sent down by god to bear witness of the true life, and it's every man that came to the world.
Speaker 4: Jesus was right there in the world.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 4: You're going to be surprised if people not in heaven, all right, anybody else?
Speaker 2: want to share.
Speaker 1: You want to be fine.
Speaker 1: You found that he is loving and caring and kind of good for people, so he has to judge people on how they worship him.
Speaker 1: Very good, so you looked at his characters, which are good.
Speaker 4: That's what we need to do All right, anybody else.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm sure you're fine, I think I'll show you your stuff.
Speaker 4: You're showing wrong music.
Speaker 4: Did you know that Jesus' own brothers did not believe until after he was crucified?
Speaker 4: His own siblings didn't believe he was who he said he was until the Son of God, until after he was crucified, they didn't marry him you know they didn't marry them.
Speaker 1: You know, People married them.
Speaker 1: They didn't marry them.
Speaker 4: We're going to tell you about the story of Joseph in the.
Speaker 1: Bible.
Speaker 2: Joseph was kind of the favorite right and he would tell his brothers things about him and they knew that it was true but they thought he was just going to brag and fool themselves.
Speaker 2: I have a nice memory of that.
Speaker 2: I guess the Jays told him that he was the son of God, yeah carry, all right.
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